[Marazan]

The spectrum was way cheaper than a C64.

The speccy had a launch price of £125 (£175 for the 48k version), the C64 launched at £399 in the UK.

[Saint_Genet]

The c64 peripherals we’re way more expensive too. Commodore had an official cassette player as well as a floppy disk drive that weren’t cheap. Though I suspect I in the long run probably spent more money on worn out joysticks